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Show Published and Unpublished Sources 321 1922-25; and "Gracious Lady, Gracious Gift," The Utah Alumnus, February 1962, 6. Among the Madelyn Cannon Stewart Silver publications in the Manuscript Division, Special Collections, University of Utah Marriott Library are Chi Delta Phi Papers. They include two of her poems, "Lovers' Quarrel" and "Evening," and one play, "The Return." See also her poem in College Anthropology of Verse, 1922 (Boston: Stratford Company, 1922). The University of Utah Library also has a complete collection of the University Pen, edited by Madelyn, 1922-24. Madelyn's poetry is described in Cherry and Barnard Silver, The Poems of Madelyn Cannon Stewart Silver (1901-1961) (Moses Lake, Washington: Privately Published, 1983); and Cherry and Barnard Silver, "Madelyn Cannon Stewart Silver: Poet of Personal Discovery," typescript, a paper presented to the Association for Mormon Letters, January 21, 1983. Madelyn's poems seldom have any dates, but I have attempted to fit each into the time frame that seems most likely. Madelyn's poems were in isolated pieces of paper, not in a particular file, and, in scattered condition among her death, papers by her son Brian Silver. I have assumed that all of the poems after her were found typed or handwritten by Madelyn without other references are Madelyn's own composition. The care with which Madelyn prepared for her Sunday School, MIA, and Relief Society classes is indicated by five boxes of 3 x 5 cards with her notes and quotations, all carefully labeled and topics attached together with paper clips. One file box is labeled "Old Testament," with cards used in forty or fifty lessons. Other file boxes are labeled "New Testament," "Book of Mormon," "General," and "Relief Society Literature" lesson notes. There are thousands of cards, most with notes on both front and back. Some of the cards in each box are under names, as for example Ralph Waldo Emerson or Emily Dickinson. Others are under topics like Easter or Honesty or Mothers Day. Her outlines for each class presentation are remarkably detailed-she might have used as many as ten or fifteen cards on both sides for a single class presentation. The cards give questions she asked, quotations from literary works bearing on the topic, and some conclusions of her own. This was a woman who took teaching responsibilities seriously! Temporarily in my custody, the boxes are part of the Madelyn Silver collection in the possession of Barnard and Cherry Silver. The political, social, economic, and cultural environment for |
